Posted on 06/27/2012 9:29:21 AM PDT by DogByte6RER
Adult Chimpanzee Fatally Mauls Baby Chimp at LA Zoo
The unnamed infant was born March 6 to Gracie, who is being allowed to keep the infant overnight to grieve, zoo officials said.
The first chimpanzee baby born at the LA Zoo in 13 years was mauled to death Tuesday by an adult chimp in front of a crowd of visitors, including children, zoo officials said.
The unnamed infant was born March 6 to Gracie, who is being allowed to keep the infant overnight to grieve, zoo officials said.
When the adult male chimp began attacking the infant, zoo staff were unable to remove her from the exhibit because policy forbids them from entering the same space as the animals, which are strong and potentially dangerous.
"I felt bad for the people that saw that happen today. There were young children there that were so sad, you know, it's just really heartbreaking," said the zoo's director of mammals.
Zoo staff did not witness the killing, but said the attack went down in front of a crowd of visitors.
"I did talk to a couple of visitors as I was coming up here, tried to help them process what they had seen,” said John Lewis, director. "We also had some other visitors to help us get a better understanding."
The zoo in Griffith Park houses one of the nation’s largest troops of chimpanzees – 15 in all – in a North American zoo, officials said. Tuesday’s violence against the infant, who was gradually introduced to the coed group, was unexpected for the staffers that make up the zoo’s Great Ape Team.
“We have made grief counseling available to them,” said Denis Verret, deputy director. “They are a support group. They work with these animals every day.”
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Looks like this hungry chimp at the LA Zoo never read the sacred scrolls handed down by the "lawgiver". Maybe the Great Ape Team could send this guy back to remedial training? A sign warning visitors not the feed bath salts to the animals might also be helpful.
If Obama had a chimp, shed look like Gracie.
The adult chimp needs to face the death penalty.
Chimpanzees go to war with neighboring troupes in the wild and even plan ambushes.
I’ll take my chances with wolves thanks.
So the children were exposed to a Post Term Abortion, not much different than a Late Term Abortion. Maybe Planned Parenthood should use this as a training video on how to soften up the youths they council into performing a very similar if not identical act.
Damn...you beat me to it. I was gonna’ say if Obama had a baby chimp, it would look like Gracie’s baby chimp. Great minds...
“Was the adult ape wearing a red bandanna? Or a blue one?”
I think the bandana looked like a hawaiian shirt colors!
ping
I will defer comment on the doings of “Apes” and Chimpanzees.”
Chimpanzees ALWAYS behave like this in the wild, Chimps are horribly violent little critters...
It is just that “Bath Salts” bring Humans DOWN to the level of violent chimps....
Nothing new about Chimps being the @$$-holes of the animal kingdom.
I'm trying to figure out if he was a Crip or a Blood.
Neither. He was a Honolulu gang member!
Remember this next time somebody tells you that homosexuality or promiscuity occurs naturally with our simian relatives. Ripping apart smaller relatives happens all the time too - should we also mimic that behavior?
“We have made grief counseling available to them,” said Denis Verret”
Is this really necessary? We really have become a pathetic society if we need help to ‘process’ our grief. Sheesh!
Jane Goodall observed this in the 1970s or so, where a mother and daughter chimp pair went around killing all the baby chimps. She said it was the only time she actively intervened, by stopping the pair from killing chimp babies in front of her.
Wasn’t that chimp Mama eating parts of the babies she killed?
I vaguely remember how shocked everyone was to find that chimps could be cannibals.
Where is the video of the mauling? IF not video, why post this?
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